ADAM
In the beginning God created the heaven and
the earth.(Gen 1:1)The existence of this
world is trace to God. The Scriptures meet us
at the point where knowledge proceeding along
the line of investigation fails.God has given
man a mind . There is a point beyond which man
is unable to go. It is at this point the Word
of God speaks in terms of revelations made to
man rather than discovery made by man. The
Scriptures gives the " why" of creation, and not
the "how" of creation.The Genesis account of
creation is purposive rather than descriptive .Now
faith is the substance of things not seen .Through
faith we understand that the worlds were framed
by the Word of God so that the things which were
seen not made of things which do appear
(Hebrews 11:3).
To have faith is to be sure of the things we hope
for and to be certain of things we cannot see.
It was by faith that the people of God won God's
approval. It is by faith that we understand that
the worlds were created by God's word so that what
can be seen was made out of what can not be seen.
In the beginning was the word and the Word was
with God and the Word was God.The same was in the
beginning with God. All things were madeby Him.
And without Him was not any thing made that
was made( John 1:1-3)
In the beginning God
created the heaven and earth. If a person can
accept the first verse of the Bible he will not
have anyproblem believing the rest of the Bible.
You must either accept or reject it. Faith is very
important in understanding God's creative plan .
Through faith we understand that the worlds were
framed by the word of God ; so that things which
a reseen were not made of things which do appear.
Only with the faith of Jesus can we understand God.
Only with Christ's faithcan we know of God's will.
Genesis 1:1 is speaking of the original perfect
earth in the beginning. We know that everything
God designs is perfect . He is the Rock. His work
is perfect for all His ways are judgment.He is a
God of truth and without iniquity ,just, and right
is He (Deut 32:4).
As for God His way is perfect
(Psalms 18:30).
But whatever is good and perfect comes to us from
God, the Creator of all light and He shines forever
without change or shadow. Every good gift and every
perfect gift is from above and comes down from the
Father of lights, with whom is no variables neither
shadow of turning(James 1:17).
The creation of Genesis 1:1 was perfect, but in the
next verse we find a ruined creation that was without
form and void .
It was in chaos and disorder. Something very wicked
and evil had destroyed the original perfect creation.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the
earth.And the earth was without form, and void; and
darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the
Spirit of God moved upon the face of the
waters. (Gen 1:1-2)
In the beginning God did not create the earth in such
a wasted and ruined state.The Lord created the heavens.
He is the one who is God. He formed and made the earth.
He made it firm and lasting. God did not make it
a desolate waste but a place for people to live.
It is He who says, I am the Lord and
there is none else(Isaiah 45:18).
The Lord is the Creator . He does not create
chaos. The Scriptures clearly show that God
created the perfect earth prior to the creation of
second earth and Adam somewhere in the dateless
past in the beginning.
Genesis 1:2 speaks of the chaotic universe prior
to the creation of the present earth. The second
earth belongs tothe second creation.In the book of
Job , God tells us about the creation of the
original perfect earth . Where were you when
I laid the earth's foundation ? Tell me if you
understand who marked off its dimensions ?Surely you
know who stretched a measuring line across it ?
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened ?
Or who laid the corner stone thereof when the
morning stars sang together , and all the sons of
God shouted for joy ?(Job 38:4-7)
The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament
shows His handywork.The first two verses of
Genesis tell us the condition of earth when God
remake the earth. It was without form.The first
earth was destroyed by the darkness of evil. It was
ruined by thesin of the former angelic inhabitants.
It was emptiness, wastes, and void. And darkness
was upon the face of the chaotic mass.The former
universe was making chaotic noises. It was in discord.
However the Spirit of God moves upon the faces of
the water preparing to refashion the universe to make
beautiful music.God brooded upon the face of the
waters. Jesus said, Except a man be born of water
and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom
of God.The water means the Word of GOD and the
Holy Spirit is the author of the Word.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was
light. (Gen 1:3 )
The Lord is the light of the world. God lets the
light of God shine in the world. And God saw
the light, that it was good: and God divided the light
from the darkness. (Gen 1:4)
The light was good. God divided the good light from
the darkness. And God called the light Day, and
the darkness he called Night. And the evening and
the morning were the first day. (Gen 1:5)
God is timeless , but God sets a time for
the world. God callsthe light Day . And He calls the
darkness Night.
And God said, Let there be a firmament
in the midst of the waters, and let it divide
the waters from the waters. (Gen 1:6)
God remade the universe.God said it and it was done
according toHis Word.And God made the firmament,
and divided the waters which were under the firmament
from the waters which were above the firmament:
and it was so. (Gen 1:7)
God remake the
universe. God positioned the water in the universe.
And God called the firmament Heaven. And the
evening and the morning were the second day.
(Gen 1:8)
God made. This time God did not create. God took
what was already there and made the firmament. And
God divided the waters. God was positioning the water
in the universe. God was establishing the laws
that governs the water.
And God said, Let the
waters under the heaven be gathered together unto
one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was
so. (Gen 1:9)
God was again positioning the
water to gather together unto one place. God was in
control of the physical elements of the universe.
And God called the dry land Earth; and the
gathering together of the waters called he Seas:
and God saw that it was good. (Gen 1:10)
Every good thing comes from God. The earth was
good. And the seas were good.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass,
the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree
yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in
itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
(Gen 1:11)
God lets the earth bring forth grass. Things
appeared only after God allowed them to appear.
God lets them to appear. And the earth brought
forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his
kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was
in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it
was good. (Gen 1:12)
God puts forth plant life on the earth. God let
the earth bring forth plant life to provide food
for man. Man was a vegetarian in the garden of
Eden. And the evening and the morning were the
third day.And God said, Let there be lights in the
firmament of the heaven to divide the day from
the night; and let them be for signs, and for
seasons, and for days, and years:
(Gen 1:13-14)
God divides the light from the darkness . The Lord
is the light of the world. The Lord is the sign
of the time. Only the Lord has the capacity to be
measured for the signs , and for the seasons, and
for the days, and for the years. And let them be
for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give
light upon the earth: and it was so.(Gen 1:15)
God divides the light from the darkness. The Lord
draws the line between right and wrong. God says it
is right. God establishes certain principles. This
is a clear distinction between right and wrong. It
is quite clear what is righteousness and what is evil.
And God made two great lights; the greater light
to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the
night: he made the stars also. (Gen 1;16)
God brought the moon and the sun into position. God
lets the sun , moon, and stars to appear. God needs
not to create them again. They were already up there.
At this time God just placedthem into position.
God positions them to give light. The sun is in
charge of the day. And the moon is to take charge of
the night. And the stars help the moon at night.
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven
to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the
day and over the night, and to divide the light
from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
(Gen 1:17-18)
It is God who does the dividing. God divides
the light from the darkness. God still does it.
God divides right from wrong. God divides
righteousness from wickedness.God says what is
righteousness. And the evening and the
morning were the fourth day.And God said, Let the
waters bring forth abundantly the movingcreature
that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth
in the open firmament of heaven. (Gen 1:19-20)
God lets things to happen. God is in charge. God lets
the water to bring forth moving creatures. God has the
supreme authority. God lets the birds to fly in the sky.
And God created great whales, and every living creature
that moved,which the waters brought forthabundantly, after
their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God
saw that it was good.And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful,
and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let
fowl multiply in the earth. (Gen 1:21-22)
God is the creator. After God has created the living
creatures, God lets every living creatures live on the
earth. The living creatures have God's blessing to be
fruitful and to multiply,and to fill the waters in the seas.
And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.And God
said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his
kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after
his kind: and it was so. (Gen 1:23-24)
God let. God allow
the earth to bring forth the living creature after his kind.
God is in charge here. The development of each species of animal
is under the control of God.And God made the beast of the
earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing
that creep upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it
was good. (Gen 1:25)
God established the physical
laws governing the development of the living creatures.
The beasts had to develop the way that God willed them to
develop.And God said, Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and
over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every
creeping thing that creep upon the earth. (Gen 1:26)
Let us. The Holy Spirit, God the Father and God the Son.
Man did not evolved. God created man in the image of God.
And God gave man dominion over the earth. Man has to do
certain things relative to this creation that God has
given to him.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of
God created he him; male and female created he them.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful,
and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and
have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl
of the air, and over every living thing that moved upon
the earth. (Gen 1:27-28)
God tells man to be fruitful,
and multiply and replenish the earth. Man and woman are
given the commandment to fill the earth by reproduction.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb
bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and
every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed;
to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth,
and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creped
upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every
green herb for meat: and it was so. (Gen 1:29)
Man was
a vegetarian at first. Man became a meat eater after the flood.
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold,
it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the
sixth day. (Gen 1:31)
Everything that God had made was good.
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished,
and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God
ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the
seventh day from all his work which he had made. (Gen 2:1-2)
At the end of the sixth day , God rested on the seventh
day because His work was completed. As believers , we
enter into His Sabbath. We enter into His perfect
redemption that is realized in Christ. Our Savior,the
Lord Jesus Christ paid for our redemption with precious
blood at the cross. Therefore being justified by faith, we
have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ(Rom 5:1).
We did not do anything to be saved. Jesus did it all for us.
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it:
because that in it he had rested from all his work which
God created and made. These are the generations of the
heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the
day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
(Gen 2:3-4)
The generations was the families of the heavens and earth.
There were former heavens and former earth. Before our
earth were made, there generations of heaven and
earth had existed,These families of heaven and
earth could have been here billions of years ago.
Something evil had happened to these generations
of heavens and earth. The result was chaos . And
the Spirit of God moved upon the deep. And God
fixed the chaotic mess. The chaotic mess was
without form and void. God turned the chaotic mess
into an orderly masterpiece of heavens and earth.
God had restored the heavens and earth.
And every plant of the field before it was in
the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew:
for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon
the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered
the whole face of the ground. (Gen 2:5-26)
Apparently no rain fell on the earth until the Flood.
The earth was watered by a mist from the earth.
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;
and man became a living soul. (Gen 2:7)
The Lord had prepared the earth for the coming of Man.
The Lord God created man with the dust of the ground.
The physical part of man is formed of the dust of the ground.
But man is more than the dust of the ground. God breathed
into his nostrils and man became a living soul. God gave
man life that is physical flesh. God also gave man life
that is spiritual . Man has in his capacity for God.
GARDEN OF EDEN
(Genesis 2:8-3:7)
And the LORD God planted a garden eastward
in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had
formed. (Gen 2:8)God provided everything for
man. The Lord God planted the garden. Man was
put there to enjoy God's fruits.
And out of the ground made the LORD God
to grow every tree that is pleasant to
the sight, and good for food;
the tree of life also in the midst
of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of
good and evil. (Gen 2:9)
The trees were functional because they were
good for food.
They were also beautiful and pleasant to the
sight. The tree of life points to the Lord God.
The believers depend upon God for every need.
Life come from God. The tree of knowledge of
good and evil points to rebellion against God.
The knowledge of good and evil can not save
a sinner. A sinner cannot work for his own
salvation, The price of sin is too high,The
wages of sin is death. It is impossible for
the sinner to paid for his sin.Only God is
pay for man. God has prepared life for man
through His Son the Lord Jesus Christ.
And a river went out of Eden to water the
garden; and from thence it was parted, and
became into four heads.The name of the first
is Pison: that is it which compassed the whole
land of Havilah, where there is gold;
And the gold of that land is good:
there is bdellium and the onyx stone.And
the name of the second river is Gihon:
the same is it that compassed the whole
land of Ethiopia.And the name
of the third river is Hiddekel: that is
it which goes toward the east of Assyria.
And the fourth river is Euphrates.
(Gen 2:10-14)
What the Lord God has made is practical and
beautiful. The garden of eden was functional
and beautiful. The rivers were wonderful and
practical. Everything has a purpose.
And the LORD God took the man, and put him
into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every
tree of the garden you may freely eat: (Gen 2:15-16)
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you
eat thereof you shall surely die. (Gen 2:15-17)
Man was to take care of God's garden of Eden.God placed
a condition on man. Life comes from God. Our source of
life comes from God. Death is separation from God. When
Adam ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good
and evil, he was slowly choke to death by the forbidden
fruit.The evil fruit separated man from God who is
man's source of life. Without God's source of spiritual
life, man survives for a while like the wild beasts and dies.
And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man
should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
(Gen 2:18)
There was a purpose for man to be alone for while in the
garden. It showed man that he needs a help mate.
And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast
of the field,and every fowl of the air; and brought them
unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever
Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air,
and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was
not found an help meet for him. (Gen 2:19-20)
Man had to be smart to name all the animals.From the living
creatures man could not find a help meet.Man can not work
for a help mate . It is a gift from God.
And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon
Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed
up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God
had taken from man, made he a woman,and brought her unto the
man.And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of
my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out
of Man. (Gen 2:21-23)
God did not take from man's head to be man's superior. God
didn't take his foot to be his inferior. God took from man's
side to be equal to him. The woman is intended to be along with
him, to be his help meet.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and
shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
(Gen 2:24)
Man is responsible for woman . He is no longer under the
control of his mommy and daddy.
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not
ashamed. (Gen 2:25)
They were naked with the glory of God. There is no shame
in righteousness.
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field
which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman,
Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of
the garden? (Gen 3:1)
Man was created innocent. Righteousness is innocence that
is maintained in the presence of temptation. You can be
developed by temptation. You can be destroyed by temptation.
Character is developed in the presence of temptation.
Man is created with the capacity to be responsible . Man has
the capacity to be responsible to glorify , to obey, to serve
and be subject to God. But because man is created with a
free will, man also has the capacity to rebel.The serpent
was Satan's tool and agent. He was a creature with
tremendous ability. He had more ability than any creature in
the world. He was a tempter.First he gets personally
involved in your affairs.Then he shakes your footing on your
foundation. If you are not standing firm on your foundation you
will surely fall.Why did the serpent approached the woman
first ? When God created Adam , He told him not to eat the
forbidden fruit. The woman had gotten her instructions
secondhand.Eve had gotten the warning instructions from man.
She did not get the direct commandment from God. Therefore
she was much more weaker than man in holding God's
commandment.She was probably more open to suggestions than
the man.The serpent knew what he was doing. In a subtle
method the serpent denied the word of God. His questioning
of her cast doubt on God's Word. He excited her curiosity by
raising a doubt in her mind.The serpent challenged her eating menu.
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may
eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the
midst of the garden, God has said, You shall not
eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.
(Gen 3:2-3)
Each person has the his or her own responsibility.
God judges one person at a time.Eve made a big
mistake when she said,we. The serpent is quite
different from man. The serpent belongs to a dying
group of beasts that will go to hell.The woman made
another mistake when she added her own words to the
word of God. All God said was
You shall not eat of it.
Then she added her own words and her own commandment,
neither shall you touch it, lest you die.
The serpent was teasing her, by touching and
handling the forbidden fruit. Soon she too was
touching the fruit. And she was excited because
she died not die when she touched the forbidden
fruit, Touching is not eating.
And the serpent said unto the woman,
You shall not surely die: (Gen 3:4)
The serpent wanted the woman to misinterpret
God's word. You shall not surely die if you touch the
forbidden fruit. This statement is out of context.
It is not God's commandment.
This is the meaning of God's word,
You shall die if you eat the forbidden fruit.
For God do know that in the day you eat
thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and you
shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
(Gen 3:5)
If you hold the Word of God as authority ,
then you don't need to guess the meaning of
good and evil.If you rejected the
authority of God , and did eat thereof, your eyes
will be opened like the useless clay idols.
And when the woman saw that the tree was
good for food, and that it was pleasant to the
eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise,
she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and
gave also unto her husband with her; and he did
eat. (Gen 3:6)
The appeal the serpent made
was of the flesh. Sight is of this physical world.
What one saw is not always the truth.To get the
truth , you have to have faith in the Lord.
Eve trusted in her senses , which led to her fall
from grace. Eveshould have placed her faith in
the Lord.What she saw was what the serpent
wanted her to see.It was alie. The woman saw that
the tree was good for food , butGod said it was
not good for food.Food was an appeal to the flesh.
It was pleasant to the eyes which were endows to
the mind.It was a pleasant appeal to the mind.
It was a tree to be desired to make one wise.
Wisdom comes from God. God gave man life that
is spiritual. Wisdom is part of that spiritual
life.The world does not offer wisdom. The world
offers cleverness. The world offers only
foolishness. Worldly people desired and lusted
to be smart and clever. Clever and smart do not
make a person wise. Desires do not lead to wisdom.
Wisdom leads to life.Wisdom comes from God.The
serpent can not offer wisdom.The serpent offers
death.The serpent offers cleverness . The man and
woman disobeyed God.They sinned. And the eyes
of them both were opened, and they knew that
they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves
together, and made themselves aprons. (Gen 3:7)
The eyes of their conscience were opened. And
they knew that their sins were naked. The fig
leaves concealed the sin but did not cover up
their sin. Adam and eve tried to cover up their
sin. They did not confess. They did not admit
their lost condition. They were still too proud
to admit their sin. They were still rebellious
against God.Man's condition today is the same
in religion. Christ cursed the fruitless fig
tree. And right after that he denounced
religion because religion merely covers over
sin.
Jesus said tothe Pharisees who were very
religious in outside appearances,
You make the inside of the platter clean.
You are just like mausoleum, beautiful on the
outside with marble and flowers, but inside
full dead men's bones.Men gets very
religious. He joins churches. Man goes through
rituals and exercises. But religion only rubs
on the outside. Christianity is not religion.
God does not begin with religion. God begins
with man's heart. The Lord Jesus said, You
must be born again in spirit and in truth.
GOD'S PLAN FOR MAN'S SALVATION
And they heard the voice of the LORD God
walking in the garden in the cool of the day:
and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the
presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of
the garden. (Gen 3:8)
Religion separates man from God. Religion separates
you from God. You can not approach God from
religion.Adam was separated from God. Adam was
lost. It was God who was seeking man. And it
was not man seeking God. A lost man can never
find God. Neither can a lost man find himself.
And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said
unto him, Where are you? (Gen 3:9)
The Lord knew where Adam was. Where are you
in relationship with the Lord God ? Are you a
believer ? Or are you a lost unbeliever ?
God is the reference point. If you have the
Lord as your God, you will know where you are
in relationship with the rest of the world.
If you have the Lord as your God, you are able
to forgiveall the other people's trespasses
against you.God is able to give you more than
what the other people can take from you.
And he said, I heard thy voice
in the garden, and I was afraid, because
I was naked; and I hid myself.And he said,
Who told you that you were naked? Have
you eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded
thee that you should not eat? And the
man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me,
she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.And
the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this
that you havet done? And the woman said, The
serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.(Gen 3:10-13)
Where are you Adam ?
Where are you spiritually ?
Have you lost your
godly spiritual ? Have you
fallen to the level
of wild beasts ?
There was
no confession of sin on their part. There was no
repentance.Adam passed the blame to the woman.
He blamed the woman for his own sin. The
woman also passed the blame. The woman blamed
the serpent for her sin.And the LORD God
said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done
this, You are cursed above all cattle, and
above every beast of the field; upon your belly
shall you go, and dust shall you eat all the
days of your life: (Gen 3:14)
The serpent was different in the beginning .
Because of what the serpent had done ,
God pronounced judgment on Satan. The serpent
was cursed and from then on had to move upon
his belly.
And I will put enmity between thee and the
woman, and between your seed and her seed;
it shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise
his heel. (Gen 3:15)
It will be a long
struggle between righteousness and evil.Jesus
said, you are of your father the devil,
and the lusts of your father you will do .
He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode
not in the truth, because there is no truth in
him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own;
for he is a liar, and the father of it.
(John 8:44)
The devil is Satan . The children of the devil
fight with the children of God.In this the
children of God are manifest. And the children
ofthe devil is revealed. Whosoever does not
have righteousness isnot of God , neither he
that loves not his brother.Here is a conflict.
Here is a fight. Here is a war.There is the
devil's seed. And there is the seed of God.
Every person must face
temptation. And every
person must struggle and
win his battle. The
believer can claim the final victory by
identifying himself with Christ through faith.
For God so loved the world that He gave His
only begotten Son that whosoever believes in
him shall not perish but have everlasting life.
Salvation is God's search for man. Man ran away
from God. AndGod called man ,
Where are you ?
It is the call of God's justice that can not
overlook sin. It is God's sorrow, that grieves
over the sinner. It is the call of God's love ,
that offers redemption for sin.The verse gives
the promise of the coming of the Savior.There
is none that seek after God. You have not chosen
theLord. The Lord has first chosen you, we
love the Lord because the Lord first loved us.
God seeks out man. God offers man salvation.
But a long struggle will take place before man
is saved.
Unto the woman he said, I will
greatly multiply thy sorrow and your conception;
in sorrow you shall bring forth children; and
thy desire shall be to your husband, and he shall
rule over thee. (Gen 3:16KJV)
God gave the judgment upon the woman. She
cannot bring a child into the world without sorrow.
And unto Adam he said,
Because you have hearkened unto
the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the
tree, of which I commanded you,saying, you shall
not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your
sake;in sorrow shall you eat of it all the
days of your life;Thorns also and thistles shall
it bring forth to you; and you shall eat the
herb of the field; In the sweat of
your face shalt thou eat bread, till you return
unto the ground; for out of it were you taken:
for dust you are, and unto dust shall you return.
((Gen 3:17-19)
God gave judgment upon the man.
Now death comes to man. Adam did not physically
die immediately after he ate the forbidden fruit.
He died nine hundred years later. Adam was not
living.A living soul has the spirit of God.
Adam was surviving like the wild beasts. The
wild beasts of the field survives. Survival
is for wild animals.When he fell from the grace
of God, Adam was not any better than the wild
beasts that were trying to survive.In the garden
Adam was upright when he ate fruits of the trees.
In the garden Adam has dominion over all
the living creatures.After his fall from the
grace of God, Adam no longer haverules over
the living creatures. Adam has to struggle with
thewild beasts in competition for food in
the fields. Adam had to search for his own
food among the thorns and thistles.In order to
survive Adam had to get down to eat the wild
herbs of the field.In the sweat of his face
he would eat bread. In this hardship he would
survive like wild beasts until he return to the
ground.Out of the dust was Adam taken, Without
the spiritual life, Adam was no more the dust
of the ground. He was dust and he returned to
dust.Adam died spiritually the moment he
disobeyed the Lord. Death is separation from
God. Physical death is a separation of the
person, the spirit, the soul, from the physical
body.Then shall dust return to the earth as
it was. And the spirit shall return unto
God who gave it.(Eccl 12:7) And Adam
called his wife's name Eve; because she was
the mother of all living. (Gen 3:20)
Eve is the mother of every living person.
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the
LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed
them.And the LORD God said, Behold, the man
is become as one of us, to know good and evil:
and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take
also of the tree of life, and eat, and live
for ever: Therefore the LORD God sent him
forth from the garden of Eden, to till the
ground from whence he was taken.So he drove
out the man; and he placed at the east of
the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a
flaming sword which turned every way, to
keep the way of the tree of life.
( Gen 3:21-24)
The coats of skins that God made for them
points to Christ. Christ made us righteous
and acceptable to God.As the result of their
disobedience, man lost his innocence and
experienced the knowledge of good and evil.
The knowledge of good and evil rejects God
as the Ruler.Man rejected God as the ruler .
So man was expelled from the garden of Eden.
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Title : ADAM and EVE(Genesis 1-3)
ISBN 10 0-921947-72
Author : Anthony Ing
Publisher: Good News Publishing
Publication Year : 2002